The American Tea Party movement is still young and in it’s infancy. It still doesn’t have a cohesive disciplined message and that is to be expected. David Horowitz who in the 60’s helped organize the Radical Progressive movement but later became a Conservative gives advice to this New Rightwing movement. He argues that they need to view politics as war and language is the key. The Progressives must be demonized and made out to evil and a coherent message is needed.
A specter is haunting America – the specter of a people rising. All across the nation Americans are waking up to the threat of a leftist elite determined to fundamentally change America, push through a socialist agenda, and make every citizen dependent on the state. The Obama machine is spending trillions of tax-payer dollars to finance their takeover of the American workplace and stifle the independence of the American people. But America is resilient nation, built on the principles of private property and individual freedom, and the resistance to their socialist plans has already begun.
In May 2009, just five months into the Obama administration, the people of California launched a tax revolt in the biggest spending state in the nation. So reckless were the leftist Democrats who run California (and have done so for as long as anyone can remember) that its deficit alone was larger than the budgets of most other states in the Union and of many of the nations of the world. Leftwing politicians don’t cut budgets; they propose new taxes. And California’s leftwing legislature did just that. But thanks to a constitutional amendment put in place by the California electorate through the state Initiative process, California legislators can’t raise taxes without a two-thirds referendum of the people. So they were forced to hold a special election in May to appeal to the electorate to pass five new ballot Initiatives to raise taxes.
But when the votes were counted, all five tax-raising Initiatives had been defeated by 60% margins. Even in San Francisco. A sixth Initiative designed by tax opponents to punish legislators who do not balance the budget passed by a more than 70% margin. Even in San Francisco. If one of the most liberal states in the Union is saying no to the soak-the-public philosophy of leftwing legislators, Obama socialism is in big trouble.
The revolt in California quickly spread to the entire nation through the efforts of the Tea Parties movement, the most innovative, exciting and powerful grassroots force in the history of American conservatism. It is vital to the health of this country that the Tea Parties movement grow. More to the point: it is essential to American survival that the Tea Parties movement succeed. On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama said “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming America.” The Tea Parties movement is the American people saying no to Obama’s plans for revolution.
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I agree with his analysis, a coherent message is needed. The issue is the inherent individualism of the Right sometimes prevents this. We must coordinate our message and demonize the Progressives. Horowitz learned this from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals which was a very effective plan the Left has used. Culture is the key, we need to control the culture and make the Left “uncool”. The Tea Parties/9-12 Movements need to follow Horowitz’s advice. He knows what he is talking about, after all he was once a Progressive.
There is a group within the Right that is preventing us from emulating the Left and believes in being nice. The elite Compassionate Conservatives of the GOP really view Democrats as their friends. Quislings like David Frum and Bruce Bartlett and their New Majority group attacks this new Rightwing movement more than they do Progressives. My word to them is get out the way or you will be run over too. If these people don’t like the tone of the Conservative/Libertarian alliance to paraphrase someone, go start your own party. We don’t need these so called Compassion Conservatives, they are Crypto-Progressives and they need to be defeated as well.
